Upcoming Training Events

New Ways for Families involves several important paradigm shifts from traditional family law practice. It is highly interdisciplinary, so that to be effective all professionals need to reinforce the skills that the parents are learning. It also focuses on “skills before decisions", so that professionals hold back from making decisions (except for necessary temporary decisions, such as restraining orders and temporary parenting plans). Implementing these shifts requires sufficient knowledge and practice, otherwise the method is unable to really help high-conflict families who may have been stuck for years.

Therefore, two days of training for New Ways for Families is required for counselors and encouraged for lawyers, judges and other related professionals (including mediators, parenting coordinators, financial advisors, court staff). In order to be listed as a trained professional in this method, an individual must have completed the two-day training. In order to be listed as a program, the professionals implementing the method must have completed the two-day training.

December 5-6, 2011:  Baltimore, Maryland
Bill Eddy is doing a 2-day training for AFCC on working with personality-disordered parents which will satisfy the requirements of the 2-day training for New Ways for Families. For more information or to register, go to www.AFCCnet.org.

January 20-21, 2012:  Orange County, California 
More detailed information will be added soon.

March 5-6, 2012:  Chicago, Illinois
Bill Eddy is doing a 2-day training for AFCC on working with personality-disordered parents which will satisfy the requirements of the 2-day training for New Ways for Families. For more information or to register, go to www.AFCCnet.org.